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Yes on technical terms you may be right Unwashed but a "Lease" "Licence" are much the same and can be determined by a number of factors and death of a "tenant" is one of them as "they (the tenant)" are unable to carry out the terms of the lease/licence ie maintain the plot.There are no "ownership" rights to an allotment - you have tenancy rights - and they are applicable to the "tenant" only they are not transferable to other members of the family as a "right". The owner of the land remains in ownership at all times and can (as sometimes happens) when a site is closed down (as has happened in London to make way for the Olympics). There is no continuing right to those allotments howevery long they have been "leased" to owners of familys in the past.There are some plots "up North"! where they were purchased and you could buy into and sell on these plots as the land was owned by the allotment committe or whatever they would call it. But where they are owned by a Council, Private Landlord or Company they remain always in the ownership of the "Owners" and are not allowed to be given, passed on to family relatives, or Willed to anyone.You have exclusive possession of an allotment plot for however long you want it if you keep to all the rules, regulations and maintenance aspects in your name (and joint if required) for as long as you want. They are not "transferable" to someone you "designate".Old Bird
I am not convniced that the simplicity of the lease agreement has any particular bearing on situation.The turn of the century leases are very simple documents, in fact too simple since they did not give any opportunity for increasing the payments.
Apart from a few cases it is a much better principle that it passes to the next person on the official list rather than being sold like a property lease.